CVE-2016-10537

Medium

Description

backbone is a module that adds in structure to a JavaScript heavy application through key-value pairs and custom events connecting to your RESTful API through JSON There exists a potential Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in the `Model#Escape` function of backbone 0.3.3 and earlier, if a user is able to supply input. This is due to the regex that's replacing things to miss the conversion of things such as `<` to `<`.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.4
Exploit probability—
ProductBackbone
PublishedMay 31, 2018
First seenMay 31, 2018

How to fix

Update
  • backbone0.5.0 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
backbone_project backbonev ≤ 0.3.3—
backbonenpm0.3.3 ≤ v < 0.5.00.5.0

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